Friday, March 18, 2011

Highland Park's Stinking Rich Teachers: 2011 HS Teachers Salaries


(Ed. Note: Since the initial publication of this article new salary figures have been released and posted on 9/8/12. These are the latest available and readers of the 2010 list will note that they all got nice pay hikes, despite the economic crisis.)

Posted below is the complete 2010 list of teachers names and salaries for Highland Park High School and Deerfield High School in District 113.

It could be of more than passing interest to the people of those North suburban Chicago hamlets, because their education establishment is pleading poverty and wants them to pony up more in taxes.

On April 5th, voters in Highland Park, Deerfield and Highwood will be asked to approve a referendum that would hike their taxes to pay $133 million more for the High Schools. After interest on the bonds that it wants to float, taxpayers would be stuck with an actual tab of $200 million.

The education establishment claims that it sorely needs the dough to patch up roofs and build athletic running tracks. But it might have thought of those things when it committed to teachers salaries that are positively among the most opulent in the nation.

Here are some highlights of the fat salaries paid to Highland Park and Deerfield High School personnel:

--- An army of 15 "Guidance Counselors" pulling down between $100k and $174k, with the average at $134k

--- A $147k drivers Ed teacher

--- 5 psychologists hauling in between $101 and $139k

--- $148k for a sex ed. teacher

--- 14 gym teachers each pulling down between $109 and $170k

--- 12 people called "Learning behavior specialists" pulling down between $102 and $140k

--- 2 six-figure social workers

--- Three drama coaches pulling down more than $100k including one at $171k (Did HP HS snare Sir Laurence Olivier?
)

The complete list of salaries is posted below in alphabetical order. These are, in almost all cases salaries for 10 months of work and come with gold plated health benefits and uniquely generous retirement plans.


For a detailed speadsheet, go to the Family Taxpayers Foundation site. That is the group that filed the Freedom of Information lawsuit to secure public release of this data from the ISBE.

Also, you can see more data on the individual employee, such as specialty and years of service, by clicking on the name.

Here is the complete list of 2011 Teachers salaries for Highland Park High School and Deerfield High School, both in HS District 113:


Twp HSD 113 2011 Download data
NAMESALARY
Acosta-Carmona, Jose$113,776
Akers, Alicia$142,866
Alexander, Earl$170,019
Allen, Lisa$106,004
Alvarez, Pablo$109,712
Anderson, Andrew$103,695
Antonakos, Nikoletta$113,102
Arcurie, Michael$17,756
Argyros, Katerina$94,602
Asebey, Eliana$124,863
Backus, Lisa$89,157
Bain, Shannon$129,167
Beaumont, Jeff$129,162
Bechtel, Jolie$91,088
Bene, David$182,862
Benito, Carrie$121,635
Berger-White, Jeffery$116,943
Berghoff, Lisa$64,809
Blanche, Julie$96,090
Bleck, Timothy$124,873
Bolek, Barry$218,205
Boncosky, Deborah$120,515
Brame, Daniel$149,003
Brandt, Lillian$150,972
Bricker, Amy$138,434
Brown, Marianthi$100,395
Brownell, Michelle$107,663
Bruss, John$117,648
Brysiewicz, Joseph$86,616
Bryson, Dawn$138,384
Bucolo, Joseph$127,166
Burke, David$100,564
Burnetti, Amy$77,441
Butler, Andrew$116,730
Byrnes, Cheryl$150,932
Caines, Kevin$144,576
Campbell, John$124,244
Carmichael, Mirah$97,578
Casale, Jennifer$118,229
Case, Cathleen$136,072
Casey, Stephanie$113,198
Castellani, Debra$85,586
Chamberlin, Daniel$124,718
Chambers, Stephanie$86,940
Chambers-Leven, Stacy$102,900
Champney, Geoffrey$56,090
Chang-Sawyer, Tsai-Hui$35,562
Chiodo, Hal$119,207
Choy, Lindsey$64,932
Chung, Eugene$132,131
Cocks, Ann$120,605
Conejo, Alexander$76,082
Connolly, John$127,249
Connor, Dixie$111,826
Conway, Timothy$179,660
Cordova, Herman$96,975
Cornelius, Amy$74,614
Cowell, Erin$79,145
Cratty, Cathy$175,883
Crowley, Helen$131,154
Curry, Megan$37,597
Dicker, Deborah$133,119
Dillon, Daniel$117,472
Dorigan, Diane$142,482
Douglas, Sarah$86,497
Eder, Andrew$70,140
Edwards, Theresa$67,351
Eglite, Julie$43,178
Elman, Judith$129,081
Engebretson, Sally$137,196
Erikson, Lou Ann$143,483
Esgar, Blanche$142,309
Esgar, Martin$136,752
Fahrner, Bridget$79,753
Fairman, Monica$119,491
Fay, Aaron$64,402
Felichio, Julie$136,511
Finn, Deborah$114,186
Fiorito, Marisa$73,234
Firer, Jennifer$104,736
Fitzgerald, Liane$130,357
Fleischer, Holly$85,660
Foerch, Doug$160,288
Fornasiero-Johnson, Claudia$130,732
Fornero, George$267,195
Forrester, Brian$69,619
Freedman, Michelle$135,821
Friedrich, Lesa$143,592
Gapinski, Robin$128,440
Garcia-Alonso, Pedro$116,741
Garza, Eduardo$68,364
Gasper, Kip$169,053
Gausselin, Gail$117,128
Geuder, Brandon$89,853
Gibbons, Thomas$93,242
Gilbert, Aliza$123,470
Gilfillan, Elizabeth$70,351
Ginopolis, Jennifer$111,337
Gonzalez, Lydia$139,653
Gordils-Hamm, Glorianne$81,631
Gordon, Stephanie$114,765
Gorleski, John$158,927
Gorman, Susan$102,462
Graafsma, Regina$68,364
Grady, Richard$140,424
Gratz, Andrea$203,565
Greene, Carol$140,302
Griffith, Audris$175,541
Grindel, Ellen$138,011
Grott, David$136,328
Gutwillig, Judith$123,066
Hagopian, Nairy$107,801
Halpern, Stacy$96,809
Hanson, Alicia$97,026
Harris, Paul$139,845
Harrison, Michael$112,432
Harvey, Barbara$125,865
Hebson, Suzan$211,909
Helkowski, Eric$76,806
Hemmila, Elena$71,948
Hermanowicz, Patricia$172,139
Hernandez, Heather$69,830
Hess, Joshua$94,132
Hicks Marx, Erin$127,110
Higgins, Kevin$85,765
Hile, James$150,891
Hill, Christine$63,471
Hill, Howard$107,391
Hindson, Amy$95,625
Hinton, Michael$123,411
Hirsch, David$80,451
Hirsch, Glynis$132,170
Hobson, Stephen$131,280
Hothem, Maria$62,379
Hoyer, Jeffry$124,639
Hubbard, Bradford$93,621
Huff, Peter$135,806
Hurtig, Elliott$156,778
Isaacson, Anne$134,502
Jamroz, Roxanne$65,778
Johnson, Andrea$153,629
Johnson, Susan$130,172
Johnson, William$129,916
Kalnes, Daniel$29,880
Kaplan, Susan$161,533
Kapsimalis, Gregory$114,639
Kauffman, Jeremy$120,256
Kean, Christopher$101,154
Kellogg, Sharon$101,056
Kempton, Lucy$132,021
Kilpatrick, Laurel$116,469
King, Kimberly$73,217
Klaas, Mirielle$77,184
Koenigsknecht, Joseph$189,973
Kolze, Maralyn$123,585
Koulentes, Thomas$139,936
Kramer, Kenneth$114,971
Krull, Gwendolyn$96,181
Kulchawik, Carol$130,471
Ladron De Guevara, Mercedes$62,005
Lakani, Kevin$47,121
Larson, Mark$161,069
Lavin, Jerold$74,890
Lawlor, Neil$89,160
Lee, Soo$90,136
Legis-Portincaso, Marisol$39,999
Leibfried, Scott$107,846
Leighton, Joshua$104,911
Lempa, Cristee$109,426
Levi, Charles$69,396
Levin, Leslie$97,677
Lewicki, Deborah$44,744
Lopez, Claudia$79,151
Loubieres, Olivier$105,609
Lucchese, Jennifer$106,026
Lucke, Kerry$136,092
Luepke, Judi$128,259
Lukens, Brian$86,145
Lusson, Paul$73,756
Lynes-Campbell, Sarah$90,553
Lynn, Joseph$124,195
Madsen, Edith$138,319
Mallon, Eden$75,337
Mansfield, Elizabeth$111,159
Mansfield, Katrina$73,078
Marsh, Kevin$162,512
Martin, Stephanie$67,295
Mc Donald, John$82,522
McCord, Don$137,330
McKendrick, Daniel$84,356
Mendoza, Charo$59,663
Misfeldt, Genevieve$78,338
Mitran, Florin$81,025
Mohyuddin, Faisal$86,035
Monroe, Roberta$142,974
Montague, Mary Crystal$98,031
Montgomery, Gregg$112,277
Moran, Michael$82,472
Morris, Sara$87,711
Morris, Steven$130,177
Morrison, William$131,559
Motzko, John$125,813
Muldrow, Michael$117,677
Myers, Carol$180,061
Nachman, Cathy$24,592
Nahigian, Lauren$67,602
Naples, Maureen$70,668
Navickas, Jennifer$102,806
Navickas, Joseph$98,855
Nelson, Lars$98,312
Nevarez, Nancy$66,285
Nice, Suzanne$106,048
Novotny, Blake$98,271
O'Malley Jr., Michael$88,226
Obinger, Barbara$127,255
Ochsner, Jennifer$66,574
Oliver, Robin$102,788
Otto, Victoria$114,316
Owens, Sheri$152,627
Palmberg, J. Benjamin$75,799
Palmberg, Sarah$84,643
Papastathis, Alesia$111,774
Pappadimas, Gus$86,182
Pappas, Catherine$137,813
Parciak, Gary$81,027
Pashtan, Hanna$76,504
Patterson, Elisabeth$124,724
Pechter, Marc$129,135
Pepsnik, Cathleen$111,713
Perlman, Elizabeth$91,773
Peters, Anthony$97,304
Petersen, Richenda$80,228
Peterson, Lizabeth$106,517
Piggott, Kristen$65,178
Pike, Miriam$166,419
Piorkowski, Kathryn$63,857
Piscitello, Andrew$48,032
Plata, Koren$78,648
Polite, Lindsay$79,842
Pujara, Kunal$123,301
Quagliana, Hilary$59,511
Ratajczyk, Bruce$156,204
Regan, Herb$131,301
Riendeau, Diane$118,048
Rigler, Neil$125,858
Riley, Christopher$126,611
Robertson, Elizabeth$144,545
Rockaitis, Ryan$108,232
Rodriguez, Angel$30,099
Roller-Wynhoff, Katherine$105,313
Rose, Steve$114,734
Rosenthal, Joshua$98,811
Rosenzweig, Michael$150,585
Ruiz, Robert$132,042
Runyan, Jeremy$95,438
Saleniek, Edgar$153,584
Sallee, Sepideh$68,369
Salmon, Janet$111,776
Sanchez, Beth$140,865
Santillan, Kristina$36,990
Sapyta, Tiffany$89,337
Sassen, Patrick$117,663
Saxman, Christine$86,096
Scane, Brian$72,548
Schriner, Christina$89,491
Schroeder, Stacey$86,769
Schuett, Carrie$92,330
Schwartz, Brett$96,143
Settles, Krista$118,615
Shah, Lisa$82,675
Shahidpour, Negar$46,623
Shallenbarger, Scott$137,113
Shirley, David$117,648
Siegel, Holly$113,661
Silber, Katherine$85,110
Sirois, Timothy$136,685
Sloot, Kelly$97,841
Smith, Cheryl$109,186
Smith, Jason$67,464
Solis, Stephanie$120,480
Stafford, William$99,257
Stasiorowski, Jaime$68,354
Stephenitch, Susan$123,479
Stillwell, Loren$96,265
Straka, Katherine$78,457
Studnitzer, Staci$58,338
Sullivan, John$125,996
Summy, Jeff$94,775
Sutherland, Richard$128,791
Svetlik, Steven$97,824
Swanson, Bradley$201,324
Swanson, Paul$128,969
Sweeney, Jean$115,690
Sweeney, Nathan$106,913
Tanimoto, Eri$127,543
Tanner, Shawn$62,276
Tenopir, Kurtis$123,922
Tenus, Katherine$61,335
Thompson, Ana$81,677
Tiveron, Derrick$86,743
Torres, Oscar$59,615
Tuckey, David$131,318
Velleuer, Ronald$136,945
Verisario, Brian$118,448
Vida, Heather$70,205
Villanueva, Jesse$97,646
Vogelsang, Thomas$120,558
Vora, Jigar$87,688
Wahrenbrock, Dana$76,287
Waller, Elizabeth$78,363
Wallrab, Kristen$82,331
Wang, Weifang$83,655
Washburn, Adam$80,813
Wathen, Charles$161,663
Watson, Alexandrea$98,146
Weiland, Jonathan$129,478
Weinstein, Marsha$149,121
Weisman, Lee$142,178
Weiss, Lynn$68,077
Wentz, Eric$137,450
Wichner, Sandra$64,442
Williams, Kenneth$143,077
Williams, Laurie$114,628
Winer, Elaine$142,257
Winiecki, Steven$140,536
Wolf, Michael$107,089
Wolf, Robin$145,288
Wolfe, Warren$124,923
Wong, George$22,347
Wright, Casey$130,461
Zientara, Melissa$107,393
Zima, Robert$134,686


That completes the list of 2011 salaries for teachers at Highland Park High School and Deerfield High School in Illinois High School District 113.

22 comments:

  1. Interesting - don't know who put this site together - FYI this is for all District 113 employees not just HPHS teachers. Also - the teachers are not unionized, so there is no union contract. Wonder how much the you and the rest of the district residents earn - let's publish that list and compare before we start judging whether these people are making too much or too little.

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  2. That is a silly remark. The median household income in HP is $148k. Several of the "guidance counselors" make considerably more than that for a level of skill that would certainly not garner that in the private sector. Most driving instructors in the real world make betw. $20k and $40k. So why does HP HS pay theirs $147k. That is crazy. Pay is determined by what someone will accept to perform a task in a free market. That has nothing to do with what others locally might be making. Also public employees are public servants. We pay their salaries, that is why they are public information.

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  3. I am an HP resident. I am sick. Great story.

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  4. The District 113 School Board voted to put a $133 Million referendum on the April ballot. The plan includes wasteful spending and
    will cause tax increases. Federal and State governments are broke. It is the wrong plan at the wrong time. The $133 Million plan will cost taxpayers over $200 Million with interest. 47% is for Athletics. My point is this: it is not the facilities that make the school, it is having great teachers and motivated students. Our high schools have that. It is the people that make the school.We need to shoot for adequate facilities. Not state-of-the-art, not world class, but adequate. That’s what we can afford, plain and simple.

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  5. Here is a site that does a great job telling the whole story: http://www.educationfirstin113.org

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  6. $35,453,567 in total salaries with an average of $105,203 per teacher. How many companies over last 3 years did not have a layoff, paid almost all health care and pension costs (in addition to salaries) and did not ask staff to take pay cuts.

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  7. I work in a poor district not far from HP. When our schools had need we had our pay frozen to help cover it. The tax payers were not asked for more, and we make much less to begin with. I might not have liked it, but I understood it. Has a pay freeze been considered to help this district?

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  8. Part of the reason the buildings are falling apart is because most of the money for things like that is instead going to pay off pensions and health care costs of the teachers and administrators. Very little actually goes toward anything "for the children!"

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  9. There are many fine educators who live in HP and work for other nearby suburban school districts who offer substantially lower compensation. The Wall Street Journal today, 3/19/11 talked about local governments holding the line on compensation and described a community that would not offer a raise to a city manager type position, the person left for a better offer and they replaced the position with someone equally qualified (20+ years experience) for far less than they were paying. The average teacher is paid $105,000+ generous benefits in HP. If the average was $80,000 there would still be a line stretching blocks long to apply to work in HP schools. This is because that is far more than districts 10 - 20 minutes away pay for the same job and teachers who are equally as qualified and live in HP and know that for a fact.

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  10. Oh, that story in Wall Street, over 100 people applied for that position, no shortage of qualified candidates.

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  11. So what's the point? If the school performs in the top 2% of achievement, as DF and HP do, staff should be paid accordigly. They have teachers with advance degrees, graduating from top tier schools who, in my estimation as a corporate exec, would probably command similar private sector salaries had they chosen that path.

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  12. To the "corporate exec" above: Did you pay your employees based on some vague guess as to what they "probably" would command in some hypothetical realm? No. You offered what they would accept based on market considerations. How does that work in a monopoly situation, like this, where powerful unions often determine who sits opposite them at the bargaining table? And based on what are these schools in the top 2% of acheivement?

    Besides, given the state of American public education, wouldn't that be like being beauty queen at a leper colony?

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  13. Keep in mind how many hours these teachers put in before and after school. Many of these teachers are coaches or activity sponsors. A typical AP teacher probably has as much grading / prep work for the next day's class as the students have homework. In order to have a great school you need to have great teachers.

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  14. Well I agree that great teachers are really a necessary prerequisite for good education. But the question becomes, do you really need this kind of remuneration with all the perks, to induce great teachers?

    And the fact that these salaries are usually wrested out of the employers at the point of a gun by the powerful teachers unions makes one question the whole system by which government school teachers' salaries are determined.

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  15. first of all YES...if you want monkeys then pay peanuts...if you want the best it will cost you...District 113 has the best teachers, bravo to them for fairly compensating them!...secondly, they are not in a union...do your research!...so easy to just look at the numbers and form an opinion...shadow a District 113 teacher for a week...I'm not sure you could handle the job!

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  16. Do try to read thoroughly, anonymous one.

    Where in the above text do you see the word union? Or any reference thereto?

    And by what measure do you come to the conclusion that these are the best teachers money can buy?

    Catholic prep schools seem to do exceedingly well with a workforce whose compensation averages 25% less. And there is no shortage of qualified applicants for their job openings.

    Tell me, are Highland Park and Deerfield kids all going to be qualified for Hollywood stunt driving because their drivers ed teacher hauls down $148k?

    Are they all going to become sexual athletes because they have a $148k sex ed teacher instructing them as to the proper way to affix a condom?

    And if opulent salaries are a determinant of quality education, please tell me about the 1,800 teachers in the Chicago Public Schools (they are unionized)who pull down $100k or more a year.

    You used the term monkeys, not me.

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  17. The people and the teachers on the "Northshore" are clueless. When does reality come in to play? Anyone making over $115K a year is in the upper 10% of our country! (working more than 9 mos a year too).I have lived here my whole life(60 years), this is embarassing. WHINERS!!!

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  18. There are 2 high schools in Township District 113--Highland Park and Deerfield. George V. Fornero, the superintendent, is openly gay. He has espoused a very liberal agenda that is almost as bullying as what he supposedly is trying to prevent. Right now, he seems intent on pleasing the jocks of the community by spending a lot on athletic facilities. District 113 was going to refinance $27,000,000 in bonds due to expire in 2012 and 2013 in addition to the $133,000,000 they were requesting via the defeated referendum for a total of $160,000,000. Fornero was responsible for a new high school in Ann Arbor, MI that was supposed to cost $154,000,000. It was not delivered on time and had cost overruns of $6,000,000 for a total of $160,000,000. Coincidence? Highland Park High School is not a top tier school based on testing as they have poor Latino students who pull down the average scores due to the fact that English is a second language for them. Both high schools, like many other schools in this area, are top heavy with administrative personnel which increases the payroll as well. Kudos to you for doing this blog.

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  19. I attended Highland Park High School.... Those teachers do NOT deserve those salaries..They weren't amazing at all. Thanks for posting this..I'm sick to my stomach now.

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  20. FYI: Learning Behaviorist specialists are special education teachers... not just some people

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  21. The teachers deserve all that and more. Oh, my opinion counts the most because I actually work there.

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